Mr Xi is in town, what else related to Xi can give us more eyeballs now that all things Xi/China are in the news, what do we have? Oh, yes, of course, spying!

It wants users to get used to how Windows works, versus to other alternatives like Linux, Mac, etc.

For example, nobody wanted Windows Mobile, so they paid Nokia to install it. Failing that (<4% mkt share), they bought Nokia.

X-Box is another product they're paying customers to take, in exchange for living room share. It's lost billions overall since its beginning.

What the last some years have done, however, is to make me rather distrusting of both sides.

I may be in the minority. But a democracy is in significant trouble when its own population no longer trusts and believes it, in the large. The leadership either turns increasingly autocratic, or it loses its power.

The t-word wins again. The lies told ostensibly because t-word, are proving to be far worse than the original risk of t-word.

And instead of effective oversight to harden our own systems, we have blindness, lack of accountability, and scapegoating.

It's not just the data collection that makes me distrust the Feds. It's its gross mis-management, abuse, and the insistence that I can't know what is going on.

So, pump out your stories about the Chinese. Many of you politicians sold us down the river, in that regard, years ago.

Actually, democracy is safest when the people distrust it.

The real problem is that we have far too many people who are either completely trusting or totally inert.